[rudyfink]

Would you mind sharing your experience on how well that has worked for you? Has the complexity of maintaining different addresses been a problem?

I ask because it is something I have always thought about, but I suppose I kept hoping a service would come along and magic the solution for me. Kudos on making it happen!

[rootusrootus]

I'm not OP but I do something similar, which I can describe. I don't whitelist addresses, I have a domain with a catchall account. So I make up addresses as needed. When I want them to die, I add them to a ruleset on the server that punts them into the bit bucket.

So far it has been really great. Easy, effective.

Edit: Like the other reply you got, I use FastMail for this service.

[btmiller]

Here’s a good guide on how to go about this :)

https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inb...

[theK]

Dito, have been doing the same with a selfhosted mailcow for years. Never had a problem :-) Lately I started switching over to [e-mail] style because of the automated organization so I don't need extra routing rules if I want to organize them.

[wombatpm]

Except for the sites that reject the + character in email. I curse those developers who do that and never go back to that site again.

[dkersten]

I do something similar and also use FastMail. I use <site-name>@sites.<my-domain> for all site signups, eg [e-mail]

[reid]

Not OP, but I just accept wildcard *@mydomain and give out a unique name for every business. Works very well and I blocked a few businesses by which do not allow for opt-out and/or shared my address with others.

This is easy to do with the Alias feature of FastMail.

[cstrat]

Yeah I do the same thing with FastMail - its awesome.

Here is a recent story where this came in handy.

I recently had a spam phone call from someone fishing for personal information, using a 'survey' as cover. During the call I learned that they had my email address as '[e-mail]'. This must have come from the Ledger data breach (https://www.ledger.com/message-ledgers-ceo-data-leak). This made the call even more nefarious than I originally thought... nothing I can do, they have that email address and my personal number. Just made me more aware of what is going on.

[NetOpWibby]

That’s terrifying.

[DoctorDabadedoo]

There is a service for that: https://anonaddy.com/

I've used it briefly for testing purposes and I have no complaints about it, it delivered what I expected with no hiccups.

[882542F3884314B]

Adding another comparable offering is https://simplelogin.io and you can set a PGP key for forwarded emails.

[SilverRed]

I did it for ages and eventually stopped. It gets awkward when you have to deal with customer support people and I never caught any spammers via the method anyway. Difficulty wise it was trivial since all emails hit my main address.

[jbaber]

When I can tell it'll be awkward, I just make up some letters on the spot like "[e-mail]". It's easy enough to look for To:gj5 in your horded mail to find out what business it was.

[cstrat]

I've done this too before, weird thing to have to do but sometimes people just don't get it. Although, nine times out of ten I get asked if I work at that business because the first bit of my email address is their business name.

[prashantsengar]

I use anonaddy for this. A generous free plan, really feasible paid plans, and is open source so you can self-host it as well.